Although I had long expected that Huangsha Ridge would not be a good place, Nanfeng was still surprised by the desolation in front of him when he reached the end of the land. There was nothing in this place except sand, no water, no vegetation, so naturally there would be no Living thing.
There was nothing on the ground, so there had to be something underground. When we got underground, we found a city buried by yellow sand. The city was very small and badly damaged. Visual inspection suggested it was a building from the Qin and Han Dynasties.
There is an earth temple on the west side of the ruins. The real thing has long since disappeared. What exists is a virtual temple. To say it is a temple is to lift it up. It is smaller than a shack. Inside it, you cannot straighten your waist or stretch your legs. , can only sit.
If you can endure hardships, you will enjoy blessings. If you can enjoy blessings, you will never endure hardships. This is Nanfeng's habit. Although the environment here is harsh, it can be improved.
Although the land is small, it still has magical power and can move earth and rocks. The most important thing is that it not only has spiritual energy, but also endured the incense from Chang'an for several days. Expanding the residence is just a matter of hands.
With a wave of his hand, the small temple expanded three times. Although it was still not big, it could at least accommodate people.
Since there is no body, it doesn't really matter whether he is lying down or sitting. Even so, Nanfeng still transformed into a stone bed. This was just out of habit, and it was of no use.
Lying down crookedly, he felt relaxed. Although the environment here was harsh, it was very quiet and no one would disturb him. This was exactly what he needed.
Another advantage of living here is that it is safe. There is no one here, so there is no need to do errands. If you don't work, you won't make mistakes. If you don't make mistakes, others will have no chance or excuse to frame him.
In addition, this area is surrounded by endless desert, and there is no other land under its jurisdiction. The gods and immortals have no excuse to come here. This is also beneficial to him. If someone comes to make trouble, he will immediately strike back and kill him. It is also a waste to kill and die in vain, because once things get serious, the other party will have no reasonable excuse to explain why they are here.
If he could sleep, Nanfeng would definitely have a good sleep at this time, but after becoming a god, he couldn't sleep even if he wanted to. This change made him very uncomfortable.
But then I thought about it, no, gods just don't need to sleep, but in fact they can still sleep. It's just that I have just become an earthly immortal, and I still can't figure it out.
After many attempts and gropings, I finally fell asleep. However, the sleep of gods is not the same as the sleep of mortals, but more like the hibernation of animals. Before going to bed, you must determine in your mind the specific time you will go to sleep. When the time comes, you can wake up. And waking up is not as comfortable and relaxing as ordinary people wake up from sleep. To put it bluntly, it is the same as sleeping or not sleeping.
The Earth God is not a ghost. Even if he is underground, he knows what is going on outside. In fact, there is nothing going on outside. The changes are just the rising of the sun, the rising of the moon, and the change of day and night.
In order to avoid forgetting the years, we must try to time it. Timekeeping is actually simple. Condensate the earth and stone into a small jar, and put a piece of gravel into the jar every day.
On the first day, Nanfeng was busy trying to figure out how to fall asleep.
On the second day, when I recalled the previous events, in fact, the specific arrangements had been handed over to Fatty, and it seemed that there were no omissions.
On the third day, the incense stopped. Although he left Chang'an before, the incense had never been cut off and was still gathering and accumulating. But at this time, the incense suddenly stopped accumulating. The change occurred at the turn of Chensi. This time is usually the time when the new land takes office. , it can be seen that the incense is not restricted by the region, but by the position. The people of Chang'an worship the land of Chang'an, and after the new official takes office, the incense will be taken away by the newly appointed land.
On the fourth day, Nanfeng began to try to study the Heavenly Book. Because he knew that haste makes waste, he did not understand the details word for word. Instead, he read the eight known volumes of the Heavenly Book silently in succession, in order to understand them thoroughly and master them thoroughly.
It is said that practice makes perfect. If you can memorize the Book of Heaven in your heart, your careful study will lead to less obstacles and more smoothness.
Due to the lack of the third volume of the Heavenly Book, the front and back cannot be completely coherent. This feeling is very bad. You cannot complete it from beginning to end in one go. Every time you go to the middle, you will be hindered. You lose your sense and rhythm. It feels like a ray on your back or a lump in your throat. , which is rare and smooth.
Anger is always unavoidable, but it is not necessary to be dejected. Although the third volume is missing, the Book of Heaven is not complete, but I have eight volumes alone. This is already a great blessing. Nine out of ten people will not be happy with their lives, and nothing will happen. To be perfect, you can treat flaws and defects with tolerance, and you cannot be picky or demanding perfection.
There are no distractions, no worries, and no need to eat or sleep. This state is most suitable for meditation and foresight. For several days, Nanfeng memorizes it silently. He only goes out to breathe and pinch grains of sand when his mind is tired. Throw into the small altar.
Since there is no vegetation around, it is impossible to judge the weather changes through the growth and decline of vegetation. It should be early winter at this time, and the north wind is blowing outside. It is just windy, and there is no snow.
At first, Nanfeng enjoyed the quietness, and made some progress in the study of the Book of Heaven. The so-called progress was not about specific gains, but a general understanding of the nature of the Book of Heaven. The Book of Heaven was not a martial arts secret book, and did not record specific spells. The Book of Heaven is more like an invisible law that is universally applicable.
Half a month later, this calmness was broken. What broke the calmness was not external interference, but my own impatience. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't calm down.
This is a feeling of panic, boredom, and irritability. At first, Nanfeng tried to suppress it, but then the situation became more and more serious. He could not meditate at all. Sensing the danger, Nanfeng paused his scrutiny of the Book of Heaven and spared his energy to find the reason. .
First, external interference can be eliminated. Without the physical body, it will naturally not be caused by the body. The study of the Heavenly Book is just a smooth process without any specific details. Naturally, there will be no talk of going too far. What’s more, the Heavenly Book is not a martial arts secret book. No matter whether the research is correct or not, there will be no such thing as going too far.
After eliminating the possible causes one by one, I finally found the root cause of the disease. The reason why I was restless and restless was because I was too focused, which caused the yin and yang to be imbalanced.
You must know that the yin and yang of the human body not only refer to the qi and blood of the physical body, but also include the relaxation of the soul. The so-called relaxation of the soul is actually the movement of thoughts.
Some people are active, and some people like silence, but whether they are active people or people who like silence, they are not completely single movements or silences.
Active people also think, but they think very little, but that doesn't mean they only do things without thinking.
And people who like tranquility do not just think, but sometimes put their thoughts into practice.
His problem was that he was thinking too much, his mind was still but not moving, and his soul was tense but not relaxed. To put it more bluntly, he was too focused, too tense, and never relaxed.
I found the root cause and tried to alleviate it, but there wasn't much I could do here. There was nothing but sand on the ground. If I wanted to find something to do, I could only look underground.
The abandonment of this city was not sudden. The people who originally lived here must have moved elsewhere and left nothing behind. However, while wandering around, he found a ruins blocked by sand. well.
When I had nothing to do, I used my magic power to remove the sand and dig downwards. Soon I found spring water from a distance of more than ten feet.
But the water vein is not strong, and the spring water is not allowed to overflow, so we can only continue to dig downward. There may be multiple water veins at different depths in the same location. We dig out several water veins in succession, and the water volume is small, until we dig down more than fifty feet. , and finally dug out a strong water vein.
The spring water gushes upward and quickly overflows to the surface.
At first, the gushing spring water seeped into the surrounding sand. When the surrounding sand was full of water, the spring water began to gather from the low-lying areas, gradually forming puddles.
A few days later, the puddle turned into a small pool three feet square. It has not expanded since then. The water is three feet deep and very clear.
Nanfeng dug the well just to distract his mind, not out of necessity. If he dug it, he would just dig it. In fact, it was of little use. When his mood returned to peace, he went back to continue studying the heavenly book.
Soon, I gained something again. What I understood this time was that the reason why the Heavenly Book is obscure and difficult to understand is not because its content is too unfamiliar, but because it is too big, covers too wide a range, and covers too many things. If there is a law, It only applies to one thing and can be very specific. If a law applies to ten things, its expression cannot be too precise, and if a law applies to everything in the world, it will inevitably appear empty and nihilistic.
The biggest difficulty in studying the Heavenly Book is not to understand its literal meaning word for word, but to compare the contents of the Heavenly Book with the many contradictory and integrated appearances of heaven and earth, universe, yin and yang, right and wrong, good and evil, men and women, etc., to find out the meaning hidden in it. Many rules.
To understand the Heavenly Book is actually to understand the way of heaven. Only by clearly observing the way of heaven can it be possible to understand the book of heaven. Once you understand the book of heaven, you can find out and master the hidden laws of heaven, and have the huge ability to control and change the yin and yang of the universe.
The so-called speed was actually only for Nanfeng. In fact, these thoughts took him more than a month. Unknowingly, it had been more than two months since he came to Huangshaling.
In the past two months, he had not seen a single person, a living creature, or even said a word. The extreme silence gave him the illusion that he was the only one left in the world.
But reason told him that there were many people in the world, and they all lived in the outside world, but he couldn't see them. As time went by, the feeling of loneliness became stronger and stronger, and he desperately wanted to talk to people, no matter it was It doesn’t matter what anyone says, even if it’s just a small talk.
When I was extremely lonely, I discovered a bird had fallen by the pond above.
Nanfeng was so happy to see a living creature that he hurriedly appeared and caught it.
The bird was an ordinary tit. It chirped after being frightened. The sound was not pleasant, but to his ears it was like the sound of heaven. What he heard most these days was the whistling wind.
After finally seeing a living creature, Nanfeng decided to raise it. However, after watching and stroking it for a long time, he let go and let the titmice go. There was no food here and the bird would starve to death if left here.
Watching the chickadee flutter its wings and fly away, Nanfeng felt very sad. Previously, he had always thought that the biggest problem in the next few years would be how to understand the Heavenly Book. Now it seems that in addition to understanding the Heavenly Book, there is another problem, that is, how to escape from this endless world. Hold on in loneliness...